Will a young couple, newly engaged, make it to their wedding day? Will their dysfunctional families ruin everything? Will they be undone by the advances of a very sexy, very unscrupulous heiress to a pharmaceuticals corporation? Is getting married even a remotely reasonable idea in the twenty-first century? And what in the world is a "Veblen" anyway? Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016 and Longlisted for the National Bookawards 2016.